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Listas

I have got the lists category down to less than 10% of what it was, around 14k. Hope that inspires you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:43, 8 January 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs) Nice! I'll keep grinding on living category and see if I can kill it within the month. Non nobus Wicipaedia! --Vami _IV✠ 15:43, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! I'll do those I can when I can. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:16, 22 January 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Zuffenhausen

Hi! I finished corrections of the existing text of Zuffenhausen. Wikirictor ^{• talk • ediits} 12:42, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Your GA nomination of Lichtenstein Castle (Württemberg)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For extraordinary dedication to clearing out Category:Biography articles without living parameter LukeSurl^{t c} 18:19, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, my first barnstar! Thanks! –Vami _IV✠ 00:49, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Un café parisien

Dear Vami,

Thanks for the Parisian coffie! As you could see on my user page, I am a convinced Brucknerian since more than 50 years. Some years ago, only a biography page, pages on Bruckner's symphonies and a few other pages on his other works existed on both the English and French Wikipedias.

For this reason I updated the existing pages on both sites and created pages on the English Wikipedia for the other works of the composer. So, all his works have currently a dedicated page, except the small piano and organ works, which have a synoptic page.

The last three weeks I have indeed translated the 110 pages on Bruckner works, which did not yet exist on the French site, so that the Wikipedia of my native language has now also a dedicated page on all Bruckner's works, except (again) the small piano and organ works, which have a synoptic page.

Best regards from Belgium, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 20:50, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, my folly! Regardless, enjoy the coffee - you deserve it! –Vami _IV✠ 05:18, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

"help Wikipedia pages in need"

Thank you for quality articles on German historic places such as Lichtenstein Castle, Ludwigsburg Palace and Maulbronn Monastery, for liking "to help Wikipedia pages in need", for gnomish tasks like working on the assessment backlog, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:45, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

;~;7 Thanks! –Vami _IV✠ 20:37, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So nice to meet someone who knows the difference between castle and palace ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:53, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Or what a folly is. Burgen und Schlössern! –Vami _IV✠ 20:56, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Difficult language ;) Burg und Schloss. Burgen und Schlösser. Unterschied zwischen Burgen und Schlössern. Folia. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So I actually just now remembered that the folder containing all the Wikipedia stuff I aim to do has been named "Wikipedia pages in need" since I started cataloging them there in 2014 (even before I registered here). Huh –Vami _IV✠ 07:53, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cute ;) - I have future plans as red links on my user page. Filling one today (I try one a day), I was happy to find the singer as one of the soloists of Mahler's Eighth, only her name was misspelled so it came as a pleasant surprise. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for going over talk pages, assessing. I mostly agree, but just saw a well-structured Bach cantata (good enough for DYK) called stub, and a prize with just an intro and a short list of recipients' names called start, and wonder why? - No red link filled today, because I discovered that an article that I had linked from the Main page had not a single source, so had something to do ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:03, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My category for a stub is a page that has one or all of the following: fewer than five citations, few or no supporting materials, bad in-line citation, and/or little content. –Vami _IV✠ 18:47, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you had plans for Otto Riethmüller only after I started. Feel free to add, I will return to his song, so far just translated (most) from de. Needs more refs, as usually, and I had no time to check if those there are working. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:40, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have never heard of this man. –Vami _IV✠ 15:58, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:36, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I copied and pasted a google translated version of the de-wiki page into my sandbox and have made no extensive edits to it since then. –Vami _IV✠ 16:41, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

understand, thanks --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:54, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Germany Book Drive

No promises, but I'll see what I can think of, and add it to the pile. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:20, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For your personal Killing Categories project - I applaud your commitment and diligence. Yunshui ^雲 _水 10:39, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, I will put this on my shelf and it will look very pretty! –Vami _IV✠ 10:47, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Talk pages

I appreciate your clean-up of article talk pages. Having said that:

Why a talk-page header at all for articles not likely to be discussed controversely?
Why Translated before projects?
How do you arrive at stub for an article such as Lioba Braun? A stub - for me - is a one-liner, such as Theater Münster (going to be expanded, not an article that translates about all the model has to offer, + added references.

I will supply the infobox now ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:33, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To my surprise, the infobox was there. - I changed the talk, to show BLP as very first thing, - revert if you think it doesn't work. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Danke.

The Talkheader is to give something to go before the banners for special projects so that other editors don't move them.
Knowing that an article is translated and may need to be looked over for authenticity is more important than knowing that it is associated and/or connected to a Wikipedia project like the 10k Challenge.
Primarily, under five citations for an article. My interpretation of what a stub is being different from that of other editors has previously led to dispute and I am considering amending it though I deeply disagree. IMO: Credibility > Length

Huh, I must've have just totally lost the wind from my sails and made a mistake there. To be honest, I've thought about discontinuing Killing Categories or this branch of it because I have lost a large amount of spirit for it, the momentum I had previously, and because I have come into conflict with several users, some Admins, in the course of the adventure. –Vami _IV✠ 15:58, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I now feel like I was part of killing your spirit, sorry, sorry, sorry. - Just to avoid disappointment:

I feel that talk page header is a waste of room, and of readers' attention, unless it's a contentious page. Most users know what an article talk page is without being told on every single one. I also feel that it talks to reader like to a child: please behave.
I feel that BLP needs to go on top, which speaks for the projects first.
"translated" tells me: notable subject in a different language, so induces more trust than an article from scratch.
I usually let the extra projects follow translation.
Stub: I agree with quality over quantity, so think two good sources are better than 10 not-so-good ones. Bayreuth Festival and Großes Sängerlexikon are as solid as you can get. I was asked to write an article on a historic opera singer which had only the latter source. So I did. One source, - the other broken as of this week, to the dismay of project opera, still start class and DYK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - the text by Gerda Arendt :"I feel that talk page header is a waste of room,..." I agree. I am writing a comment in the next days on my talk page to Vami_IV. Right now I'm working on the update for several articles that are on a diferend topic. This info concerns the article Alex Kempkens, where the information about the missing Infobox was posted today. At that time, 2015, no one was interested to add an infobox. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 15:19, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rest assured my friend, I've got a crusade lined up for articles with missing infoboxes. –Vami _IV✠ 17:44, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Castles in Rems-Murr-Kreis

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DYK for Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil

On 10 July 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil (pictured) once belonged to the House of Bourbon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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<3 –Vami _IV✠ 01:49, 10 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

1511 Idrija earthquake

Hello, I have some comments about the changes that were made. First, I have reverted them because while a few sources were added and the death toll changed, there was not enough text added to the article to clearly state why the figures differ so drastically. I also have issues with your edit summaries. I don't think they sufficiently explained the changes. I hope you can see that it's quite a shocking difference to go from 15 to more than 10,000. I would say that in cases like this the discrepancy can be explained in the article, rather than just dumping one source for another with zero explanation. Dawnseeker2000 17:59, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Source misrepresentation

In support of my stance on this, I checked one of the sources that you added that was apparently supposed to support the claim of 12,000 deaths from the event ("Geophysical evidence of recent activity of the Idrija fault, Kanomlja, NW Slovenia"), but it does not say that. You really need to read the source prior to adding it any any text to the articles. There is far too much corruption of the articles going on in Wikipedia. We don't need to make ourselves look foolish. I hope you understand where I'm coming from. Dawnseeker2000 18:08, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rating the article "Talk:Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr" as low importance

You have rated the article Rating the article "Talk:Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr" as low importance. Can you please explain why? I don't understand the Low/Medium/High importance at all. I think it depends on the reader if an article is High or low importance. Is this rating for the whole article or for only for the Talk page? But even for that: Talk pages are very important for authors/readers. And if it is empty: you can put it to an category empty. Same for quality – I see that this article is short and can be extended... but still it does not mean low importance. --GodeNehler (talk) 04:50, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The "Importance" of an article is relative to the WikiProject, according to how many people daily will see the page. Typically, "High" or "Top" importance articles are ones central to the topic, in this case the nation, peoples, and culture of Germany, while "Mid" to "Low" are less so. You don't really have to worry about this, however, because Importance is fairly unimportant on Wikipedia. The important part is the quality of the article. –Vami _IV✠ 05:55, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ulrich von Coler (August 26)

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Biographies of filmmakers

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Once again, just a reminder that the Film project does not cover articles about actors, directors and filmmakers. Those articles are covered by adding |filmbio-work-group=yes to {{WikiProject Biography}} instead. Therefore, please do not add the {{WikiProject Film}} banner to any biography articles. Thanks! Fortdj33 (talk) 20:11, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Again, per WP:FILM the Film project does not cover articles about actors, directors and filmmakers, so please stop adding the {{WikiProject Film}} banner to biography articles! Doing so just creates more work for other editors and is disruptive. Fortdj33 (talk) 22:03, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

September 2017

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I'm not new. –Vami _IV✠ 23:04, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I know. Eric ^talk 09:38, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Las Vegas shooting

Apologies - I could only see 20+ in the source(s). I see it has now changed to 50+ :( Thanks for fixing. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 10:45, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NP my dude. No harm done and I changed the tweet to make the current figure correct :D –Vami _IV✠ 10:46, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Milhist reviewing award

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I wasn't aware I was involved with any A-class reviews. –Vami _IV✠ 00:04, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hallo, I see that you rearranged the banners at Talk:Heidi Mottram. There are a few points here:

It's conventional to put the WiR banner below the other project banners: I'm not sure if it's written anywhere, but what the prolific @SusunW: does is good enough as a model - see Talk:Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles
Heidi Mottram is not an artist. Please take more care when changing banners added by other editors
I still think that as her major notability is as a water industry leader that's an appropriate Wikiproject to add. If you are going to remove banners added by other editors, please explain why in an edit summary, rather than the inaccurate and general "Talk page header changes " (they aren't headers).
As the article went live 34 mins before midnight local time on 31st Oct I'm not sure whether it was justified to change the banner from "00" to "60": again, please explain when you are going against other editors' decisions. (If making several possibly controversial changes at once, split them into a series of separate edits so that you can explain each one in a separate edit summary)

Thanks for your work in contributing to the encyclopedia and to WiR. PamD 08:11, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contributions. I must note, however, that I agree with PamD. Please stop moving the WiR banner to the top of the page. It should be below the WikiProjects. In addition, placing "photo needed|y" after the WikiProject banner, simply means that someone else must come along and categorize the photo request as being one for a person. The designation {{Image requested|people}} prevents people from having to do the double task of recategorizing what type of photo is needed. If you have doubts, you can review the discussion archive on the topic on the WiR talk page. SusunW (talk) 19:05, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I use the |needs-photo=y parameter in Template:WikiProject Biography, which places the request in Category:Wikipedia requested images of people according to previous parameters in the Bio template (Here is evidence of this). I will cease moving Template:WIR-60 to the top of talk pages. –Vami _IV✠ 19:13, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A beer for you!

Nice work on Blanka Wladislaw - keep it up! Meatsgains (talk) 21:03, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For Wikipedia, anything. –Vami _IV✠ 21:06, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Lacy Duarte) has been reviewed!

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A page you started (Miroslava Breach) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Miroslava Breach, Vami IV!

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Incredibly good new article. Very good work.WP:ORES predicted the class of this article as GA, which I have not seen before for a new article. So maybe take it over to GA review and see if ORES is right!

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I have not yet begun to edit! –Vami _IV✠ 01:52, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A bit of a joke on my part about taking it to GA, I just have not seen a new article get an ORES classification that high before (ORES is built into the new wikiproject rater tool. Also, I hope it's ok, but I nominated the article for DYK. Feel free to make your own suggestions for alternatives for hooks. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 02:27, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my, thanks. My second DYK... –Vami _IV✠ 03:30, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Miroslava Breach

Hello! Your submission of Miroslava Breach at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:17, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please fix your script

Please fix your script so that it does not add duplicate parameters. See this edit and this edit. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:25, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OH, oops. I'll keep an eye out for that in the future, thanks. –Vami _IV✠ 15:30, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Talita Fontoura Alves) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Talita Fontoura Alves, Vami IV!

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Please would you emphasise her authorship of the new species, Quesnelia alborosea (in J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 139(1): 37. 2012). If it hadn't been for the IPNI link I don't think she would meet the criteria for WP:ACADEMIC. My view is that any person who names a species new to science is as notable as the creature itself, as their name will forever be associated with it. However, that's not everyone's view, so the more you can add to show her notability above general professional teaching status, the better. I'm not convinced that the reference you cite as being a professor indicates anything more than she is a university teacher (ie a professor in the basic sense, not a distinguished 'Professor', as defined in WP:NACADEMIC.

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DYK for Miroslava Breach

On 18 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Miroslava Breach, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Miroslava Breach, a Mexican investigative journalist known for exposing human rights violations and political corruption, was murdered in March 2017? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Miroslava Breach. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Miroslava Breach), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:03, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For your EXCELLENT work at Miroslava Breach, I award you this barnstar. Thank you for creating this article. MX (✉ • ✎) 01:04, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much. I'll think of you when I come back to Breach. –Vami _IV✠ 01:58, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well deserved! BTW, I specialized in Mexican organized crime, and I'm very interested in murdered Mexican journalists. If our interests happen to align in the future, feel free to ping me. You might find Regina Martínez Pérez, an article I wrote a long time ago, quite interesting too. Her case reminds me of Breach's... MX (✉ • ✎) 02:39, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ooooooh, what alignment of the stars is this! We should work together! –Vami _IV✠ 05:04, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Headers

Hi. For the contest can you please ensure you only use User:Vami IV in header titles. Don't want to see initials of countries as it messes up the bot. Please go through all lists and revise, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:18, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Scoreboard Still a Vami rather than Vami IV somewhere.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:12, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, thanks. –Vami _IV✠ 21:05, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you kindly

I'd forgotten I'd hit the thousandth article. Yay. Thanks very much for the barnstar - I owe you one, as well, for all the excellent work you've done in the contest. (Just got back from an evening out, so it'll take me a bit of time to get sorted.)

Keep up the good work, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:15, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Women in Red

Despite our recent exchange on my talk page, I've just noticed you have become a member of WiR. If ever you need any help or run into any problems, please let me know. You are also welcome to contribute to the WiR talk page where you can also let us know of any suggestions you might have on how to improve the project. Keep up the good work!--Ipigott (talk) 09:17, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

¡Mucho trabajamos, mucho éxito, mi amigo! –Vami _IV✠ 09:20, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your dyk

Please check you nomination of Ana Lucía Armijos. CrossTemple Jay 10:49, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What is a QPQ? –Vami _IV✠ 10:50, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

qpq is short for qui pro quo, the Latin phrase meaning that you have to do a review for a subnission, unless you have no more than five DYK credits. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still lost here. –Vami _IV✠ 14:05, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

At DYK, you get 5 'free' nominations, but after that you are required to review someone else's submission before submitting one yourself (to stop nominations piling up). I am pretty sure you haven't used up your 5 freebies though, based on your earlier comments to me in the section above, so I've ticked this one off. It is helpful to note on your DYK nomination under the QPQ section: "no QPQ nessessary: second nomination" or something similar. Cheers. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 19:31, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhhh, I see. Guess I'm a DYK reviewer now too :) –Vami _IV✠ 19:32, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstars

		The Latin American Barnstar
		For your excellent work adding articles about Latin American women to Wikipedia in the Women in Red contest, I award you this Latin American Barnstar. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:46, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Enjoy! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:46, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly will. Cheers. –Vami _IV✠ 13:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You should have given the Europe merits award, which you kindly gave me, also to yourself, or do I have to do it? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:00, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it would be pretty shallow to award myself a barnstar. –Vami _IV✠ 14:01, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I can see why, even if it's objective standards, so here you go:

		The Barnstar of European Merit
		The Barnstar of European Merit goes to Vami IV for impressive and dedicated participation in the European 10,000 Challenge, writing many articles, and also taking care of talk reviews and article talk pages.

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:51, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Both well deserved! How did Sharon the Sorceress die Vami, she was only 41. Quite a bombshell, sad.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:33, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. Blofeld (talk) She was murdered, apparently. I will definitely be circling back to Mrs. Bermeo when the competition concludes. –Vami _IV✠ 08:35, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thanks for the recognition, it's a fun project to do, gives me some incentive to fix up a lot of articles I know are seriously lacking. Probably wouldn't have started doing so if it weren't for this, and am just glad to contribute. Kaiser matias (talk) 02:47, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Barnstar of European Merit

Thank you so much for the barnstar! It made my day :) Sandvich18 (talk) 08:13, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Ways to improve Carmen Bunster

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Miroslava Breach

Vami IV, Thank you for your kind message. The student who worked on Miroslava Breach is User:Sjschoenba (I just did the merging for her). And thank you for your interest and work on Breach for Wikipedia. My students in an Introduction to Mass Communication course at the University of Southern Indiana write about journalists who have been killed around the world or articles that will expand the diversity of biographies about journalists. If you're interested in this, please let me know. All the best, Crtew (talk) 21:23, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete DYK nomination

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DYK nomination of Ana Teresa Diego

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Vami IV, it has been about a week since this was posted, yet you haven't responded to the nomination review nor expanded the article, which is currently too short for DYK purposes. If you wish to pursue this nomination, we need to hear from you right away, since it could be closed at any time. If there isn't any additional material to be added, then let us know that, too. Thank you very much! BlueMoonset (talk) 22:46, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Autopatrolled granted

Hi Vami IV, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! TonyBallioni (talk) 21:12, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Neeto! –Vami _IV✠ 21:13, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian biography

Hi, Vami IV! I saw you wrote a Canadian biography for the WIR Contest. If you'd like, you can also submit this to The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Please use this link for convenience. Thanks for all your work on the contest! – Reidgreg (talk) 11:58, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Did I write one for a Canadian? I was sure the only non-Latinas I wrote articles for was an Russian-American-French Tibetan Buddhist nun (writing the lead for her was tricky) and a Spaniard. –Vami _IV✠ 18:08, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

TWC: Prize claims

Vami, according to the contest rules to win the top prizes you need to have created a minimum of one article from each continent. I believe you missed three of them and I'm pretty sure you weren't aware of the ruling. As you've worked so hard I'll waiver it if you can create those three articles needed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:25, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do I need to do this for all my occupation prize claims? –Vami _IV✠ 08:39, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find any mention of this rule in the rules or prizes page(s). Dr. Blofeld (talk), may I see this rule? –Vami _IV✠ 08:50, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's stated on the rules page and geo and general articles section of the prize claims page. The minimum requirement for diversity. Not for the occupation prizes, just for the general large prizes and you finished near the top on that.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:56, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm only in the running for Most Articles in South America, Caribbean, and Islands. I revoked my bid for most articles overall a couple weeks or so into the competition because I knew I could not win it. Check the Prize Claims page. –Vami _IV✠ 08:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

~~Andra Whiteside: Oceania (needs 30 bytes more for 1000)~~
~~Suzanne Landau: Asia~~
~~Izza Génini: Africa (needs 230 bytes)~~

Not for regional prizes, the Main general prizes for the contest. You finished in the top 5 so to get your money on that...♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:53, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Loud and clear. Arican and an Asian coming right up. I'll try to make their articles as high quality as possible. –Vami _IV✠ 09:54, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You finished third so to collect your $100 for that.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:56, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Finished. –Vami _IV✠ 12:33, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, I know you would have done them during the contest had you been aware of the ruling.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:21, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't list your articles on the general claims for most articles page like everybody else!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, fixed. Thanks for telling me off. –Vami _IV✠ 10:47, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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Foley

Do you have an e-mail address I can use? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 19:26, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My "business" email is corranplain@yahoo.com –Vami _IV✠ 02:36, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sending. If there's anything else that looks interesting, let me know, it's a lot cheaper to read the thesis than buy the book...;o)Keith-264 (talk) 08:26, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An exceptional barnstar for you

	The World Contest Laurels
	Congratulations for finishing 3rd place in the Women in Red World Contest!! -♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:05, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou so much for the hard work! I make it $337.50 that you've won. Please double check. If you would like to donate any of your winnings in the Women in Red Book Fund to raise money to buy books for editors of women topics who need the books on demand please add your name and the amount you'd like to donate on the main contest page.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:05, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Did the $337.50 include the UK prize of £50 = $66.58? Please double check and email me with your user name, email address and currency preference.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:38, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did not participate in the United Kingdom and am not eligible for money from that category. You can find my email on my User page, I live in the United States. –Vami _IV✠ 21:32, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	I just wanted to pass by and congratulate you for working so hard this month, specially about articles of Latin America. I would love to edit with you in the future if there's a new project or contest. Peace! Jamez42 (talk) 14:52, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar! There's still the 10k for Latin America... –Vami _IV✠ 14:57, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Ana Lucía Armijos

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Signpost

Hello, and great work on the Women in Red contest! Would you mind adding a short paragraph talking about your work at User:Eddie891/sandbox/WomenInRedContest for coverage on The Signpost? Thank You! Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 18:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done; thanks for the offer. –Vami _IV✠ 00:20, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Carmen Salinas de la Vega

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DYK for Ana Teresa Diego

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Christmas greetings

	A Shaker Christmas wish
	Give good gifts, one to another Peace, joy and comfort gladly bestow Harbor no ill 'gainst sister or brother Smooth life's journey as you onward go. Broad as the sunshine, free as the showers. So shed an influence blessing to prove; Give for the noblest of efforts your pow'rs; Blest and be blest, is the law of love.

Wishing you all the best for 2018 and beyond! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:27, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Ana Lucía Armijos

On 28 December 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ana Lucía Armijos, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ana Lucía Armijos, president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ana Lucía Armijos. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ana Lucía Armijos), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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